Cyclone was supposed to be a safer dialect of C. Shouldn’t it have replaced C by now, while also adding some improvements and reducing the burden of legacy code?
Cyclone was supposed to be a safer dialect of C. Shouldn’t it have replaced C by now, while also adding some improvements and reducing the burden of legacy code?
being closed source probably didnt help. The website cites Rust as being a successor for some of its ideas, though.
It is not close-sourced. There are various repositories out there:
Oh you’re right. The website wasn’t giving those vibes that’s for sure, and the wiki didnt suggest what license it was distributed under during its lifecycle. Was it always open source do you know?
The project is almost 24 years old, the same age as me. It does not appear to have any sort of license in it’s earlier stage, but later on, they’ve added GPL 2.0 and LGPL 2.1.